Author : Maciej Nyka
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 18,40 MB
Release : 2019-05-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1848883420
This interdisciplinary volume analyses environmental justice and proposes means for enacting it, particularly at the citizen level. According to authors, promoting environmental justice addresses contemporary problems far beyond those of ecology.
Author : Tony Shallcross
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 33,72 MB
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9401201455
This book focuses on the concepts of environmental justice and global citizenship from a number of different disciplinary perspectives with the intention of promoting at the very least some interdisciplinary understandings. Initially presented as papers at an interdisciplinary conference on the themes of environmental justice and global citizenship in Copenhagen in February 2002, the chapters in this volume were chosen by election by those attending the conference. They represent the emergent differences of opinion and glimmers of agreement in the conference as discussions of environmental justice and global citizenship inevitably led to considerations of sustainability and Agenda 21. Some degree of agreement did emerge around the idea of seeing sustainability as a process rather than a predetermined outcome. There was also a shared interest in the pedagogy of educating students in and about sustainability. This volume has been divided into disciplinary or thematically based sections but the purpose of the introductory chapter is to draw links and connections between different papers and different themes in the volume.
Author : Karen Druffel
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 47,28 MB
Release : 2019-01-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1848882513
This volume was first published by Inter-Disciplinary Press in 2013. Can we adopt human rights concepts, long used to frame problems of social justice, to define environmental justice? Can existing social institutions provide models and tools for achieving environmental justice? This volume views old models of agency through new lenses and examines how several social institutions, such as law, education and health care, address specific environmental problems. The volume presents arguments for human obligations towards the environment and future generations. Scholars assess the limitations of existing models and others point to recent failures in protecting the interests of indigenous groups or species. And on a hopeful note, examples are given of institutions that promise some success in effecting environmental goals. As this discussion of citizenship suggests, much like environmental justice, a global context both in definition and application is required.
Author : John Pearson
Publisher :
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 34,83 MB
Release : 2015-07-31
Category :
ISBN : 9781848883499
In light of the realisation that environmental justice must, as far as is possible, incorporate the needs of the global citizenship, this volume considers a range of the specific and broad issues which have emerged in this regard. Discussion of such issues however has the potential to become inherently negative, culminating in suggestions that the only approach to preventing environmental harms is to restrict, prohibit and divest from established practice. Such suggestions however inevitably result in contention between parties on either side of the debate regarding the implementation of any such measures. As such the volume considers both challenges and opportunities for the development of measures to secure environmental justice for a diverse global citizenship. This is achieved through three broad areas of discussion, the philosophical foundations of securing environmental justice, how education might secure it for the future and the lessons from examples of success in doing so.
Author :
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 42,16 MB
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9401203741
In this inter-disciplinary follow-up to Future as Fairness: Ecological Justice and Global Citizenship (edited by Haugestad and Wulfhorst, Rodopi 2004) 14 chapters explore a variety of conceptual and practical pathways to the building of sustainable communities. Five chapters provide different perspectives on sustainable and unsustainable agriculture. Other cases explored are wildlife valuations, distributional effects of environmental policy, the emerging American nuclear power renaissance, regulation of care use, job losses with a raising GDP, cooperation between labour and environmentalists, plant biotechnology, participatory decision making, acoustic ecology, decent competition, and fractality as a key to global citizenship and ecological justice. The introduction sketches a framework for constructive evaluation of the interrelationships between environmental sustainability, economic sustainability, communities, and social interactions.
Author : Darian McBain
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 35,59 MB
Release : 2019-01-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1848882920
Who holds the power when considering environmental justice and global citizenship? The roles of individuals, governments, media, educators and policy makers are considered to provide a thought-provoking look at power relationships for environmental justice in the start of the 21st century.
Author : Mark J. Smith
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 28,37 MB
Release : 2013-07-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1848136617
Citizenship and the environment are hotly debated, as climate change places more responsibility on individuals and institutions in shaping policy. Using new evidence and cases from across the globe, Environment and Citizenship explores the new vocabulary of ecological citizenship and examines how successful environmental policy-making depends on the responsible actions of citizens and civil society organizations as much as on governments and international treaties. This accessible and thought-provoking book: - provides a comprehensive and timely guide to the debates on environmental and ecological citizenship, expertly combining examples of practice with theory; - examines how environmental movements have become increasingly involved in governance processes at the local, national, regional and intergovernmental levels; - explores the increasing importance of corporations and transnational networks through examples of stakeholding processes and participatory research in environmental decision-making; - calls on researchers, policy-makers and activists to face a new challenge: how to effectively link environmental justice with social justice. Breaking new ground, Smith and Pangsapa address how environmental responsibility operates through politics, ethics, culture and the everyday experiences of ctivists, as well as how awareness of environmental and social injustice only leads to responsible actions and strategic change through civic engagement.
Author :
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 40,1 MB
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 940120568X
The 5th Environmental Justice and Global Citizenship conference was held at Oxford, UK in 2006. This decidedly trans-disciplinary, international event attracted participants from traditionally separate academic perspectives; each ambassadors for their disciplines and each seeking and making connections with other disciplines and other understandings. Some of the presentations from this conference have been further developed for inclusion in this book, yielding 14 chapters of paradigmatic richness covering issues ranging from environmental education and the nature of global multinational corporations, to the role of environmental activism and consideration of how democratically representative some campaigns may be. This book will be of great interest to anyone working in these areas as well as an excellent introductory journey for those seeking to become pan-paradigmatic.
Author : Ian Lowe
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 25,4 MB
Release : 2004-08-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1134289219
This volume brings together contributions from prominent philosophers, political scientists and other scholars on the challenges that globalization poses to traditional environmental values.
Author : Benito Cao
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 24,37 MB
Release : 2015-03-05
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1136191011
The increasing awareness of the human impact on the environment is having a profound effect on the concept and content of citizenship – one of the fundamental institutions that structures human relations. In what is the first introduction of its kind, this book provides an accessible, stimulating and multidimensional overview of the many ways in which concern for the environment – driven primarily by the preoccupation with sustainability – is reshaping our understanding of citizenship. Environment and Citizenship is structured into three parts. Part I introduces the reader to the concept and theories of citizenship and explores the impact that environmental concerns is having on contemporary formulations of citizenship, both traditional (e.g. national, liberal and republican) and emerging (e.g. cosmopolitan, ecological and ecofeminist). Part II explores the practical manifestations of environmental citizenship, with each chapter focusing on a particular actor: citizens, governments, and corporations. These chapters include references to examples and case studies from a wide range of countries, broadly categorized as belonging to the Global North and the Global South. Part III explores the making of green citizens and outlines the dominant articulations of environmental citizenship that emerge from formal education, news media and popular culture. The book concludes with a general reflection on the present and future of environmental citizenship. The book contains a variety of illustrations, boxed case-studies, links to online resources and suggestions for further reading. This original and engaging text is essential reading for students and scholars of environmental politics, sustainability studies and development studies, as well as for environmental activists, policy practitioners and environmental educators. More broadly, this book will appeal to anyone interested in and concerned with issues of sustainability, social justice and citizenship in the twenty-first century.
